Creating Statistics for China’s Building Energy Consumption Using an Adapted Energy Balance Sheet

Mingshun Zhang, Xuan Ge, Ya Zhao and Chun Xia-Bauer
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Mingshun Zhang: School of Environment and Energy Engineering, Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Beijing 100044, China
Xuan Ge: School of Environment and Energy Engineering, Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Beijing 100044, China
Ya Zhao: School of Construction Management and Real Estate, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400044, China
Chun Xia-Bauer: Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy, 42103 Wuppertal, Germany

Energies, 2019, vol. 12, issue 22, 1-15

Abstract: China’s regular energy statistics does not include the building sector, and data on building energy demand is included in other types of energy consumption in the Energy Balance Sheet (EBS). Therefore data on building energy demand is not collected based on statistics, but rather calculated or estimated by various approaches in China. This study aims at developing and testing China’s building energy statistics by applying an adapted EBS. The advantage of the adapted EBS is that statistical data is from the regular statistical system and no additional statistical efforts are needed. The research result shows that the adapted EBS can be included in China regular energy statistical system and can be standardized in a transparent way. Testing of the adapted EBS shows that China’s building energy demand has shown an annual increase of 7.6% since 2001, and a lower contribution to the total energy demand as compared to the developed world. There is also a close link to lifestyle and living standard while industrial energy demand is mainly driven by economy and decoupling of building energy demand with increasing of building floor area, this is due to a considerable improvement of building energy efficiency. The adapted EBS creates a method for China conducting statistics of building energy consumption at the sector level in a uniform way and serves as the basis for any sound building energy efficiency policy decisions.

Keywords: building energy statistics; building energy consumption; energy balance sheet; building energy efficiency; China (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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